COVID-19 cases on Saturday and eight more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, including two in the past 24 hours.Health officials say hospitalizations remained stable at 481, and 108 people are in intensive care, a drop of seven from Friday.The province said it administered 53,796 doses of the vaccine on Friday, for a total of 1,176,670.Quebec has reported a total of 307,394 COVID-19 infections and 10,645 deaths linked to the virus.
It currently has 7,617 active reported cases.Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé said in a tweet on Friday that the increase in the number of daily infections was not unexpected.“What matters to us is that this increase in cases does not translate into an increase in hospitalizations, like in January,”.